company of 122nd Tambov Infantry Regiment
Petrograd's Defense
Petrograd Military District
Armed forces against Kerensky
Chief of Staff for Antonov-Ovseyenko
Group of forces onto Kiev
Armed forces of Odessa
Red Army East Front
Simbirsk separatist forces

In January 1918 he led Red Guard units against the Central Rada of Ukraine and after the Battle of Kruty his forces took Kiev were they performed mass terror against the offices of the imperial army and pro-Ukrainian elements. Then his forces fought against the Don Cossack forces of General Kaledin.

However, after he had been named commander of the eastern front, fighting the Czechoslovak Legion, he heard of the Left SR uprising against the Bolsheviks in early July and left the front open, allowing the White capture of Simbirsk. Finding himself without support from his troops, he was captured by the Bolsheviks, resisted arrest, and was shot while trying to draw a gun.